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Do you know where your Genten is and how important it is to where you are today?
Talk x GENTEN's third panel event was held this week at The Japan Foundation in downtown Toronto and featured inspiring stories from athletes Carlos Newton and Miyuu Yamamoto. The technical definition of genten means...

TORONTO -- A media launch for Kampai Toronto 2014 was held today at the Japan Foundation.
On May 29, Kampai Toronto will host its third-annual sake preview and tasting for the general public in Toronto's Distillery District.
The media launch gave new details on the event and showcased the first-ever...

While that may sounds like the punch line to a joke, for many Canadians this past winter was one of the most frigid on record.
But as May arrived so too did the warm weather, but none of Ontario’s thousands of Sakura trees blossomed as they were scheduled to.
Only late in the month did the signature...

Celebrating over seventy years of writing, Moritsugu was recognized for being an active member in the Japanese Canadian community participating in groups like the Wynford Seniors and giving talks on his wartime experience.
"I think the greatest part is not so much they awarded me something I love...

Kanamara Matsuri is held on April's first Sunday in Kanagawa prefecture's Kawasaki City. It's held near to the Kanayama shrine that is within the larger Wakamiya shrine.
The festival is especially popular with Western tourists who visit Japan during the Sakura season. Many also participate in this...

Tokyo -- A cherry tree seed, once aboard the International Space Station, has bloomed years ahead of schedule, reports AFP.
The four-year-old sapling bloomed on April 1st, and has baffled the Buddhist brothers at the temple in centre Japan where the actual tree is growing.
"We are amazed to see how fast...

TOKYO -- The memoirs of Masabumi Hosono, the sole Japanese survivor of the Titanic that sunk in 1912, will be on display at a Yokohama museum, according to Japan Today.
Starting April 19, Hosono's memoirs will be on display at the Yokohama Minato Museum as part of the museum's special "Treasures collection"...

Spring is finally coming to Toronto after the coldest winter in 20 years.
In Spring, Japanese hold a party called Hanami where they eat dango (sweet rice dumpling) with green tea or bento box, and so on. They do this under the cherry trees that blossom during this time of the year. It's also known...

Four thousand claimants are now involved in a class action lawsuit against nuclear suppliers General Electric, Toshiba, and Hitachi, according to Japan Today.
The lawsuit involves parties from Japan as well as 32 other countries including the United States, Germany, and South Korea, want the nuclear...

Three years down the road from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the impact is still being felt.
On Tuesday, Japan mourned the three year anniversary of the disaster that caused a humanitarian crisis in the country and set off what would be the country's first nuclear emergency at the Fukushima...